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In 1843, 12 years after he scored with Notre Dame, his play "The Burgraves" failed & his daughter drowned |
Victor Hugo
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On "M*A*S*H", surgeon Benjamin Franklin Pierce |
Hawkeye
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The Equator passes through this country's states of Amapa, Para, Roraima & Amazonas |
Brazil
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This epic miniseries that begins in Africa drew a TV audience of 130 million |
Roots
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It's a deal in which the defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense in exchange for more lenient sentencing |
a plea bargain
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In song, he "went to town, a-riding on a pony" |
Yankee Doodle
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Winning the Nobel Prize in 1957, this African-born French author said he would've voted for Andre Malraux |
Camus
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On "Cheers", bartender Ernie Pantusso |
Coach
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Sumatra is one of the islands of this archipelago through which the Equator passes |
Indonesia
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Activist Steve Biko died in police custody in this country, prompting international protests |
South Africa
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From the Latin for "fold together", it's a person equally guilty of a crime by aiding another in committing it |
(Jim: What's abetting?) (Karen: What's a conspirator?)
an accomplice
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By color & size, it's how our sun is classified |
a yellow dwarf
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Completes the title of Raymond Queneau's novel about a brat who only wants to ride the subway, "Zazie dans le..." |
(Jim: [*]. What is [*]?)
Métro
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On a Fox series, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan |
Bones
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The Equator crosses Ecuador just north of this capital city |
(Jim: What is... "Cuscu"?)
Quito
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In one of his first acts as president, Jimmy Carter pardoned this group of men |
draft dodgers
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The Constitution bans bills of attainder, which strip property rights from them, people guilty of crimes like murder |
felons
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It's what you have "all in a row" in a phrase that means to have all arrangements complete |
your ducks
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If you recall, "The Sweet Cheat Gone" & "The Past Recaptured" are found in this 7-part Proust masterpiece |
Remembrance of Things Past
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On "Entourage", entrepreneur Salvatore Vacara |
Turtle
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The Equator is just south of Entebbe in this country |
Uganda
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Formerly purged Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng was restored to power & this quartet was expelled from the Communist Party |
the Gang of Four
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In these farcical late-1930s trials in the USSR, old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason |
show trials
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Dating from the early 1930s, they're a counterpart to the College Republicans |
the Young Democrats
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In 1717 it was Bastille Day for this 1-named author who'd do 11 months for satirical verses against the govt. |
Voltaire
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On "Saved by the Bell", Samuel Powers |
Screech
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This country is a cluster of coral islands in the Indian Ocean |
the Maldives
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This cultural center & museum named for a French president opened in Paris on January 31 |
the Pompidou Center
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His 1982 "not guilty by reason of insanity" verdict led states to pass laws that allowed "guilty but mentally ill" |
(Cate: I know it, but I don't. [Laughs]) (Alex: Wanna take a chance and blurt out a name?) (Cate: No.)
John Hinckley
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She was a movie actress before she gained a new audience as Lily Munster on 1960s television |
Yvonne De Carlo
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